Center for Robust Speech Systems

Hynek Boril, Ph.D.

Biographical Sketch

Hynek Boril was born in Most, Czech Republic. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and information technology at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. In August 2007, he joined the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS), Eric Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas.He serves as an external reviewer for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), Speech Communication (Elsevier Journal), The EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), ISCA INTERSPEECH conference, and IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU).

Publications

Journal Articles

• Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Unsupervised Equalization of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 18(6), 1379-1393.
• Boril, H. and Fousek, P. (2006). “Influence of different speech representations and HMM training strategies on ASR performance,” Acta Polytechnica, Journal on Advanced Engineering 46, 32-35.

Book Reviews in Journals

• Boril, H. (2011): “Pavel Machac and Radek Skarnitzl (2009). Foneticka segmentace hlasek. Prague: Epocha Publishing House” in press, Nase Rec (Our Speech), The Institute of Czech Language, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, in Czech, Prague.
• Boril, H. (2010): “Pavel Machac and Radek Skarnitzl (2009). Principles of Phonetic Segmentation. Prague: Epocha Publishing House” in: R. Skarnitzl (Ed.), Acta Universitatis Carolinae (AUC) Philologica 1/2009, Phonetica Pragensia XII, Karolinum Publishing House, Prague, pp. 63-64.

Book Chapters

• Boril, H., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J. H. L. (2011): DSP (Digital Signal Processing) for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety, chapter “Towards Multi-modal Driver's Stress Detection,” J. H. L. Hansen, P. Boyraz, K. Takeda, H. Abut (Eds.), in press, Springer, New York, 2011.

  Conference/Workshop Proceedings

• Boril, H., Grezl, F., Hansen, J. H. L. (2011). “Front-End Compensation Methods for LVCSR Under Lombard Effect,” submitted to Interspeech'11, August 28-31 (Florence, Italy).
• Boril, H., Sadjadi, O., Hansen, J. H. L. (2011). “UTDrive: Emotion and Cognitive Load Classification for In-Vehicle Scenarios,” accepted to The 5th Biennial Workshop on Digital Signal Processing for In-Vehicle Systems, September 4-7 (Kiel, Germany).
• Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “UT-Scope: Towards LVCSR under Lombard Effect Induced by Varying Types and Levels of Noisy Background,” Accepted to IEEE ICASSP'11, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.
• Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L., et al. (2010). “A Longitudinal Study of Infant Speech Production Parameters: A Case Study,” Accepted to LENA Users Conference, April 2011 (Denver, CO).
• Boril, H., Sangwan, A., Hasan, T., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Automatic Excitement-Level Detection for Sports Highlights Generation,” in Proc. of Interspeech'10, 2202-2205 (Makuhari, Chiba, Japan).
• Boril, H., Sadjadi, O., Kleinschmidt, T., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Analysis and Detection of Cognitive Load and Frustration in Drivers� Speech,” in Proc. of Interspeech'10, 502-505 (Makuhari, Chiba, Japan).
• Amuda, S., Boril, H., Sangwan, A., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Limited Resource Speech Recognition for Nigerian English,” in Proc. of IEEE ICASSP'10, 5090-5093 (Dallas, TX).
• Mehrabani, M., Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Dialect Distance Assessment Method Based on Comparison of Pitch Pattern Statistical Models,” in Proc. of IEEE ICASSP'10, 5158-5161 (Dallas, TX).
• Kleinschmidt, T., Boyraz, P., Boril, H., Sridharan, S., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Assessment of Speech Dialog Systems using Multi-Modal Cognitive Load Analysis and Driving Performance Metrics,” IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety ICVES`09, 162-167 (Pune, India).
• Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Reduced Complexity Equalization of Lombard Effect for Speech Recognition in Noisy Adverse Environments,” in Proc. of Interspeech'09, 1243-1246 (Brighton, UK).
• Boril, H., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Towards Multi-Modal Driver's Stress Detection,” in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, Texas).
• Boril, H., Krishnamurthy, N., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Online Noise and Lombard Effect Compensation for In-Vehicle Automatic Speech Recognition,” in Proc. of 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety (Dallas, Texas).
• Boril, H., Hansen, J. H. L. (2009). “Unsupervised equalization of Lombard effect for speech recognition in noisy adverse environment,” in Proc. of IEEE ICASSP'09, 3937-3940 (Taipei, Taiwan).
• Boril, H., Fousek, P., and Höge, H. (2007). “Two-stage system for robust neutral/Lombard speech recognition”, in Proc. of Interspeech'07, 1074-1077 (Antwerp, Belgium).
• Boril, H., Boril, T., and Pollák, P. (2006). “Methodology of Lombard speech database acquisition: Experiences with CLSD”, in Proc. of LREC 2006 - 5th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 1644-1647 (Genova, Italy).
• Boril, H., Fousek, P., and Pollák, P. (2006). “Data-driven design of front-end filter bank for Lombard speech recognition”, in Proc. of ICSLP'06, 381-384 (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania).
• Boril, H., Fousek, P., Sündermann, D., Cerva, P., and Zdansky, J. (2006). “Lombard speech recognition: A comparative study”, in Proc. 16th Czech-German Workshop on Speech Processing, 141-148 (Prague, Czech Republic).
• Boril, H. (2005). “Automatic Reconstruction of Utterance Boundaries Time Marks in Speech Database Re-grabbed from DAT Recorder.” In Proc. of International Workshop on Digital Technologies 2005, 2005, vol. 1, 13-16 (Zilina, Slovakia).
• Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2005). “Comparison of three Czech speech databases from the standpoint of Lombard effect appearance”, in COST278 and ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Applied Spoken Language Interaction in Distributed Environments (ASIDE 2005), Aalborg, Denmark.
• Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2005). “Design and collection of Czech Lombard Speech Database”, in Proc. of Interspeech'05, 1577-1580 (Lisboa, Portugal).
• Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2004). “Direct time domain fundamental frequency estimation of speech in noisy conditions”, in Proc. EUSIPCO 2004, volume 2, 1003 - 1006 (Vienna, Austria).

Lectures/Abstracts/Reports

• Boril, H., Sangwan, A., Hasan, T., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Automatic Excitement-Level Detection for Sports Highlights Generation,” in Wireless Long Term Evolution - The Connected World, UT Dallas Research and New Venture Showcase, Poster Presentation (Dallas, TX).
• Boril, H., Sadjadi, O., Kleinschmidt, T., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Analysis and Detection of Cognitive Load and Frustration in Drivers� Speech,” Wireless Long Term Evolution - The Connected World, UT Dallas Research and New Venture Showcase, Poster Presentation (Dallas, TX).
• Lei, Y., Hasan, T., Suh, J.-W., Sangwan, A., Boril, H., Gang, L., Godin, K., Zhang, C., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “The CRSS Systems for the 2010 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation,” NIST 2010 Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, 24-25 June 2010.
• Boril, H., Kleinschmidt, T., Boyraz, P., Hansen, J. H. L. (2010). “Impact of Cognitive Load and Frustration on Drivers' Speech,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., Volume 127, Issue 3, pp. 1996-1996 (March 2010). Presented in Joint 159th ASA Meeting and Noise-Con 2010, Baltimore, Maryland, 19-23 April 2010. Invited Lecture
• Boril, H. (2008). “Attributes and Recognition of Lombard Speech,” Invited Lecture, Sound to Sense (S2S) Workshop - Speech in Adverse Conditions (Prague, Czech Republic).
• Boril, H. (2007). “Normalization of Lombard effect”, Research Report No. R07-2, 52 pages, Czech Technical University in Prague & Siemens Corporate Technology (Munich, Germany).
• Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2006). “Czech Lombard Speech Database (CLSD`05)”, Technical Report No. R07-1, 24 pages, Czech Technical University in Prague.
• Boril, H. and Pollák, P. (2006). “Pitch-marking Based on the DFE Algorithm.” Lecture, 6th ECESS and TC-STAR WP3 Meeting (Berlin, Germany).

Theses

• Boril, H. (2008). “Robust speech recognition: Analysis and equalization of Lombard effect in Czech corpora,” Ph.D. dissertation, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Boril, H. (2003). “Guitar MIDI converter”, Master's thesis, Czech Technical University in Prague, in Czech.